The conversation was held in the Nicolás Guillén Hall of the San Carlos de la Cabaña Fortress.

Photo: Thalía Fuentes Puebla/ Cubadebate

Two different writers, of different nationalities, the Costa Rican filmmaker María Lourdes Cortés, and the Cuban professor and critic Joel del Río, saw

Gabriel García Márquez's relationship with the seventh art

as a starting point to write two texts that were presented this Saturday at the XXXI International Book Fair of Havana.

At the beginning of the panel, they met in the room Nicolás Guillén of the San Carlos Fortress of the Cabaña Patricia Ariza Flórez, Minister of Culture, Arts and Knowledge of Colombia, Jaime Abello, co-founder of the Gabo Foundation, José Luis Díaz , Colombian writer, the filmmaker Lisandro Duque, and the Cuban writers Francisco López Sacha and Senel Paz, to talk about the career of the Nobel Prize for Literature and his relationship with Cuba.

 "It was a privilege to be able to witness one of the meetings between the Nobel Prize for Literature (1982) and the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro," said the head of Colombian Culture.

Jaime Abello, co-founder of the Gabo Foundation,

also highlighted the friendship between the author of "El colonel no tiene que le escriba" and Fidel. 

Both titles offer different conceptions of what cinema meant for the Colombian writer, but, according to López Sacha, "its contents address the successes and failures of Garciamarca's works taken to the cinema in various ways."

In

El cine según García Márquez

, by Joel del Río, the critic tries to make a balanced judgment on generally underestimated productions of the writer's work.

“Like someone who goes up the Magdalena River, from the Caribbean to a town similar to Macondo, in The Cinema According to García Márquez the virtues and dissatisfactions of some film versions of the universe generated by the author of One Hundred Years of Solitude are retraced”.

Del Río said that

when writing his book he concentrated on the remarkable reflections that appear in some films based on Gabo's work

and on the sea of ​​existing interviews in which the Colombian writer talks about cinema and also his facet as critical.

In the issue there is an account of biographical events from Gabo's first dazzling with the cinema, the writer's journey through Rome, and his stages as a reporter in Europe and critic upon his return to Colombia.

Throughout the book the fruitful relationship between cinema and literature is defended. 

In

Contrary Loves.

García Márquez y el cine,

by Costa Rican filmmaker María Lourdes Cortés, unravels the mystery: how can one be faithful in a transfer of codes, materials and disciplines that handle different modes of production and reception?

The author "directs each memory of the adapted work as if it were a love relationship that begins with the motivations of its filmmakers, going through the creative climax and the skills of filming until reaching the final outcome."

López Sacha meant that the style of the Colombian Nobel Prize winner for Literature is very difficult to bring to the screen, although in some tapes there were reflections of the super dimension of Gabo's own magical realism.

The conversation was held in the Nicolás Guillén Hall of the San Carlos de la Cabaña Fortress.

Photo: Thalía Fuentes Puebla/ Cubadebate

The conversation was held in the Nicolás Guillén Hall of the San Carlos de la Cabaña Fortress.

Photo: Thalía Fuentes Puebla/ Cubadebate

See also:

At the Fair, Fidel and Gabo

On video, Havana International Book Fair

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